Comments on: The Secret Agent – chapter 5 http://librivox.org/2005/09/12/secret-agent-chapter-5-by-joseph-conrad/ free public domain audiobooks Fri, 25 May 2012 04:18:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tino http://librivox.org/2005/09/12/secret-agent-chapter-5-by-joseph-conrad/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Tino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=10#comment-41 <p>A suggestion: It would be a very good idea to come up with a standard for the ID3 tags on these files; I just downloaded five files, and found five different approaches:</p><p>track/artist/album:<br />secret agent - chapter 1/joseph conrad/librivox<br />The Secret Agent/Joseph Conrad/Chapter Two-Read by Neal Foley, AKA Podchief<br />Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent, Chapter 3/Joseph Conrad/Chapter 3 - Read by fling93<br />Voice050830004.mp3/Recorded/Voice<br />Chapter 5/Branko Collin/The Secret Agent</p><p>This lack of standardization means that my iPod etc. will not identify these files as being associated with one another in any way unless I manually edit the tags.</p><p>Might I suggest putting the book title (and *only* the book title, and with an agreed-upon format, so software will see all these tracks as being part of the same thing) in the 'album' field, the chapter number or name in the 'title' field, and the author's name (again with a standard, agreed-upon format) in the 'artist' field?</p><p>Consistency in genres - 4/5 of the files have this already - would be good, too, as would track numbers.</p><p>I don't bother with all of this with music files, but with audiobooks it's particularly important to be able to sort files into the proper order.</p> A suggestion: It would be a very good idea to come up with a standard for the ID3 tags on these files; I just downloaded five files, and found five different approaches:

track/artist/album:
secret agent – chapter 1/joseph conrad/librivox
The Secret Agent/Joseph Conrad/Chapter Two-Read by Neal Foley, AKA Podchief
Joseph Conrad – The Secret Agent, Chapter 3/Joseph Conrad/Chapter 3 – Read by fling93
Voice050830004.mp3/Recorded/Voice
Chapter 5/Branko Collin/The Secret Agent

This lack of standardization means that my iPod etc. will not identify these files as being associated with one another in any way unless I manually edit the tags.

Might I suggest putting the book title (and *only* the book title, and with an agreed-upon format, so software will see all these tracks as being part of the same thing) in the ‘album’ field, the chapter number or name in the ‘title’ field, and the author’s name (again with a standard, agreed-upon format) in the ‘artist’ field?

Consistency in genres – 4/5 of the files have this already – would be good, too, as would track numbers.

I don’t bother with all of this with music files, but with audiobooks it’s particularly important to be able to sort files into the proper order.

]]> By: hugh http://librivox.org/2005/09/12/secret-agent-chapter-5-by-joseph-conrad/comment-page-1/#comment-42 hugh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=10#comment-42 <p>ok i'll have to look at that ... thanks for the tip!</p> ok i’ll have to look at that … thanks for the tip!

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